This HaBO is from Lia who wants to find this historical romance:
I really hope someone can remember this book! Here’s what I can recall:
–Basically, the book takes place in California before it becomes a state (1800s)
–Female Lead was really sick at the start of the book (consumption or something similar) and she survived but was super weak
–Male Lead loves Female Lead from the start but because of her weakened condition he’s too worried something will happen to her so he puts a halt to romance plans
–Something about gold or treasure?
–Female Lead gets captured by the bad guy and then rescued by Male Lead
Hopefully someone remembers!
Sound familiar to anyone?
Noidea really, but am wondering if this ws written by Shirley Busbee or Rebecca Brandywine.
Sounds a bit like Treasure of the Sun by Christina Dodd. I don’t remember the heroine being sick, but it’s been a long time since I read it. I remember the hero backing off because she’s recently widowed. Hope this is it, but if not, hope someone else comes up with the right one.
I immediately thought of a pretty old Lorraine Heath, in which the hero marries his friend’s sister as a favour, knowing she’s dying of consumption, but then he falls in love with her. A bit of research on Amazon tells me it’s Never Marry a Cowboy, which apparently does have outlaws in it somewhere (I did read it a very long time ago so I don’t remember much). Except the book is set in Texas….
I recall neither the title nor the author (SO HELPFUL of me!) but I would swear I read the same book – I think it was set in either northern CA or the Pacific Northwest, he was a lumber baron, and he takes her on a canoe date to a private island…? I think the heroine had terrible asthma and some convenient magical POC with no character arc of his/her own gave the heroine a native plant that helped her manage her asthma? Does any of this sound familiar?